Papers by Manh-Cuong Phan
Metamo: Empowering Large Language Models with Psychological Distortion Detection for Cognition-aware Coaching (2025.emnlp-demos)
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| Challenge: | Metamo is a browser-based dialogue system that transforms an off-the-shelf large language model into an empathetic coach for everyday workplace concerns. |
| Approach: | They propose a browser-based dialogue system that first identifies the cognitive distortion behind an emotion, then recognizes the user’s emotion, and finally produces a question-centered reply that invites reflection. |
| Outcome: | Empirical tests on public corpora showed that the proposed system improved emotionrecognition quality and response diversity without sacrificing latency. |
CMTD: Cognitive Modeling with Traits and Distortions for Multimodal Emotion Recognition in Conversations (2026.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Experimental results show that traits temper negativity bias from distortions, and cognitive modeling with psychological, visual, and acoustic information can improve the performance of MERC. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework for multimodal emotion recognition in conversations that takes advantage of stable personality traits, dynamic cognitive distortions, visual and acoustic features of interlocutors to enhance the emotional intelligence of LLMs. |
| Outcome: | Experimental results show that traits temper negativity bias from distortions, and cognitive modeling with psychological, visual, and acoustic information can improve the performance of MERC. |